Posts made by Rook

@Roz said:

I know how to fix anxiety issues! Just stop being so anxious!

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?! We have spent BILLIONS on this research, and HERE YOU ARE....

I think the 5 of us were IC less than a month before we sparked a game-wide people-vs-corps revolt, using the Church as a base for the People. It ballooned far too quickly, partially because Staff oversaw some extended rolls that ended up having very wide impact that no one was expecting (to get away with). Thankfully, everything was defensive in nature at first, but the success pools were atrocious. Between the 5 starting Mages, we had every Sphere at 4.

It scared and disgusted us, let alone Staff, and before we all got branded as twinks, we just all OOCly started retiring the characters. I think most of us regenned Mortals.

I wasn't part of that group. I was Michael, of the Mage troupe that essentially all retired our chars because the power level between us kinda... got ridiculous and ruined the fun for people.

"To tell you the truth..."
"To be honest..."

Why, do you lie to me all the other times we communicate?

Excuse me, sir? Your post does not belong here. It belongs in the goddamned Hall of Fame. Thank you for understanding.

Title it: New MU* Grabbag!

Who lied to you? Here at the Dark Lords Foundation, we are always taking new applications from all walks of life. We do not discriminate, nor prioritize application processing based on race, credo, pants size or religion. Well, sometimes on religion....

@thebird spams the +1 button

I just melt-glued the vamp's boot soles to the floor, then threw a bottle of Everclear at them. Stood there with the lighter. He backed down, I flipped the lighter closed.

@Arkandel I will when I get my Steambox. Then I will have zero fucking reasons to be on Windows.

I do most of my work in Linux anyway.

DM will always hold a special place in my heart. Joined when I first started mushing in 91, played my first WoD character, and got my first kudos from staff for resolution/handling of a PK scene. Why would I know that I just walked into the Sabbat hangout?! It was a bar!

Anyway, got out of there with my life (and the guy that rushed to kill me got to live because I didn't drop the lighter), and I found out just how PK-weary the staff were at the time. Hell, I was just having fun with the story, I was fascinated. I got hooked.

Yeah.... I dunno about Kushiel's being Shangrila. There is a fuckton of difference. On top of the veneer, the players do not act anything like what they do on Shang. There is a serious visible lack of rudeness, self-importance and breach of 'theme' (snicker Shang theme. BUAHAHA).

Every person I've interacted with on Kushiel's was all about the theme, they were nice and pleasant to talk to, and there was RP to be found. As for the TS, not every character on Kushiel's is X-rated, many are R-rated, so I wouldn't assume that all RP there is TS-centric.

@Sammi said:

You jump the shark and then nothing short of shark-jumping is ever good enough.

Oddly, this is the exact sort of think-fail that I think causes good TV drama shows to spiral out into the Ridiculousness. They did X last year, so to step it up, they have to do Y this year, then Z next year.. and eventually the show loses the attraction of realistic immersion.

Games can be like this, as can characters.

I use smoked mozz in my cajun pasta that I make. It really completes the dish, me thinks.

I came >this close< to using the Strange for mine. But in the end decided it was too complex.

Also: You said "fuckwad". snicker

@Thenomain said:

Except those reports every two months saying how your router's firewall can be actively bypassed because of Apparently Cool Feature X, nevermind the inherent network insecurities from The Internet Of Things.

Firewalls cannot be 'bypassed' if your router (any modern) uses stateful packet inspection. Nothing can just 'come in' unless you invite it in. The reports that state that your firewall can be actively bypassed are fear mongering, or written by someone who has no idea how they work.

Anitvirus programs are written for non-computer users. Seriously.

If you have a firewall/router between you and your modem, you stop 100% active intrusion. Then all you need to do is be careful what you do on the interwebs. The Microsoft-pushed malware detection stuff tends to stop most everything, and what it doesn't stop, turn on the 'Are you absolutely sure you want to allow <X> to do this?' warnings. There.

That's the breadth of my 'antivirus' regimen for 15 years. I've been malware infected twice, and those were from torrent installations by the cracker team kiddies.

The more 'dangerous' crap out there are the browser add-ons that you get tricked into accepting with installation setups. Java does it, as does a few other 'legit' pieces of software. Why Oracle needs to supplement their income with adware-driven crap is beyond me.

I want Sunny's Facebook. My Facebook is nothing like that. If I weren't required to be on it (long story), I would have never, ever joined.

People who stand in the grocery freezer aisle two-abreast, BESIDE their carts, filling the entire aisle as they look through the amazing breadth of offerings of the grocer's whimsical plethora.

Then when they don't even acknowledge you standing there, waiting to get by, patiently.

Then when they don't even acknowledge you clearing your throat.

They certainly acknowledge when you crash through their carts, shoving them out of the way.